Handling of readme and license files

Robert Goldman rpgoldman at sift.info
Thu Oct 20 12:23:36 UTC 2022


On 16 Oct 2022, at 1:58, Russell Sim wrote:

> Mirko Vukovic <mirko.vukovic at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> somewhat off-topic to the original question:
>>
>> Can :static-file be used for files part of unit tests? Such as unit 
>> tests
>> for log-parsers.
>
> My understanding is that :static-file components are used to specify 
> any
> non-lisp file dependencies of the system.  The lisp parts of the unit
> tests should use :file declarations.
>
> I have used them for things like, css, graphics, test fixtures,
> templates etc, pretty much any file that I know the system depends on,
> that aren't common lisp files.

That is correct. I would expect test definitions, and even fixture code, 
would go in normal `:file` components (but only for a test system, not 
for the system under test).  Test *data*, though (e.g., XML documents 
for XMLS) would be static files.
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